Western Wind

by Paula Fox

Book Overview

Sent to stay with her artist grandmother in a cottage with no electricity and only an outhouse on an island off Maine's coast, Elizabeth doesn't like the island, view, cottage, neighbors, or even... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440409918
• ISBN13: 9780440409915
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

An Interesting Book

If you are looking for a book that you don't want to put down than Western Wind is the book for you. When I read Western Wind I couldn't put it down. If you do like books that you cant put down than trust me you want to read this book. If you don't like those kind of books than you shouldn't read this book. This book is about a girl that goes and sees her Grandma Gran. She feels like she is sent away because she doesn't wasnt to go but her parents make her. She has a new baby brother and thats why she feels that she has been sent away. Her parents make her go because her grandma has heart cancer and she wants to see Elizabith( her grandaughter). Elizabith meets a boy named Aaron and has a lot of fun with him. Her grandma lives on Pring Island and has no bathroom or electricty. Aaron gets lost and eveyone has to go on a search for him. Gran's heart cancer is getting worse. When Gran gets home she can't breathe. She asks Elizabith to get her neighbor to call the coast gaurd. Gran goes to the hospital. Does she die or not?

As sparklingly craggy as the coast of Maine itself!

If you'd ever lingered among the crags and eddies off the coast of Maine, there is much that is endearing and enduring in this brief novel, written for near-teens, but enjoyable for all ages. A young girl spends the summer with her grandmother, an artist on an island just off the Maine coast. At first, perplexed and hurt by her parents' decision to have her stay with the often taciturn, but always loving and engaging gran, young Elizabeth learns through a young neighbor boy the importance of seizing the day and not missing a moment of life, a lesson that becomes all the more poignant by the novel's melancholy, but hopeful ending. Paula Fox is the author of the Newbery-winning SLAVE DANCER and always writes with a clarity of spirit and sparklingly unforgettable characters. Further evidence that quick reads do not have to be toss-away pap.

This is the best book!!! It is so realistic interesting!!!!!

Western Wind is a really good book!! Elizabeth acts just like a girl would in her situation with her grandmother. She is a girl who was sent to her grandma's house for awhile and feels like her parents sent her away so they could be alone with their new son. I really recommend you read this book. It is excellent!!!!!!